There comes a moment in every filmmaker’s journey when the illusion breaks—not during the writing, not even during production, but after the film is finished, when a much harder question quietly surfaces: Now what? On today’s episode, we dive into that reality with Liz Manashil, a filmmaker and Sundance executive who understands both sides of the industry—creating a micro-budget feature from the ground up and working within the system that determines whether films are ever seen.